Monday, May 15, 2017

Great Moments in Fascist Stoogery, Part One

It was a heart-warming moment from a bygone America, a slight, 10 minute-long reprise of the good ole days of driveins, doctors who made house calls, mail delivery twice a day, the Good Humor Man and lynchings.
Yes, professional peckerhead and part-time punching bag Dick Spenser was at it again last Saturday with yet another stunt described by some of the participants as a "candlelight vigil." Really, really big candles that could easily be mistaken for torches in the hands of an angry mob. All that were missing were the requisite pitchforks (I guess they couldn't get a good bulk rate at the local Walmart.).
So what were they all up in arms about last Saturday night? Well, Spenser decided enough was enough and the Alt-whiteright poster boy from Whitefish, Montana decided he couldn't let some lily-livered, bleeding heart liberal City Council members allow Confederate General and vicious racist Robert E. Lee's statue to be taken down in Charlottesville, Virginia. Because General Lee is so popular in Montana and all. Forget the fact that a judge issued a six month injunction to keep the statue up so they could whitewash literally and figuratively the true meaning of southern pride and heritage.
The illegitimate sons of Trump could be heard calling out, "Russia is our friend", making the first time in human history that fascist elements became allies with Russia. The Mayor of Charlottesville likened the gathering to a KKK rally, which, of course, that's what it really was, minus the bed sheets. Just to ensure no one mistook their message, they were also chanting, "Blood and soil", a popular Nazi-era slogan.
Yes, the Neonazis love Putin and his quasi Communist state of Russia.
Then no sooner than they'd lit their yuge candles that were mistaken for torches in the hands of an ugly white mob, they were told to disperse from the area. In all, the "rally" in Lee Park lasted for 10 whole minutes.
Note in the NY Times article there was no mention of any violence, cops showing up in riot gear and tanks like what we'd seen a few years ago in Ferguson. Nope, the deputies just had to show up all nice and conciliatory like Sheriff Andy Taylor and tell them to knock it off and to go back home to their moonshine and pork rinds.
Why is it something in me suspects the outcome would've been slightly different if the City Council had ruled the statue to stay up and an equal number of torch-wielding black protesters had shown up in Lee Park? Because, you know, we can't let them darkies get all uppity an' all. Why, next thing you know they'll be demanding the right to vote, to not be lynched without a kangaroo court and 12 hour days in the cotton fields!
Sorry, guys. I'll go as far as the driveins, doctors who make house calls, twice a day mail delivery and the Good Humor Man. This America from a bygone age celebrating slavery, lynchings and racism with impunity is something we could all do without. This stunt, and that's all it was- a pathetic stunt that withered at the first sign of law enforcement, was meant to do one thing- Resurrect images from America at its darkest and ugliest and to instill fear in those who might support the removal of the statue of such an offensive man as Lee.
It didn't work.